APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION DIVINUS PERFECTIONIS MAGISTER* JOHN PAUL BISHOP SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD FOR POSTERITY The Divine Teacher and Model of Perfection, Christ Jesus, who together with the Father and the Holy Spirit is proclaimed as “alone holy”, loved the Church as His bride and delivered Himself up for her so that He might sanctify her and make her glorious in His sight. Thus He gave the commandment to all His disciples to imitate the perfection of the Father and He sends upon all the Holy Spirit, who might inspire them from within to love God with their whole heart…

CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS SANCTORUM MATER INSTRUCTION FOR CONDUCTING DIOCESAN OR EPARCHIAL INQUIRIES IN THE CAUSES OF SAINTS ROME 2007 MOTHER of the Saints, the Church has always preserved their memory by proposing to the faithful examples of holiness in the sequela Christi (1). In centuries past the Roman Pontiffs saw to the promulgation of adequate norms to aid in reaching the truth in so important a matter for the Church. In our own times, the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II promulgated the Apostolic Constitution,Divinus perfectionis Magister, on 25 January 1983. In it he established, among other things, the procedure for diocesan or eparchial…

COMMUNIQUE BY THE CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF SAINTS HAVING heard the conclusions of the study of the theological reasons for the rites of Beatification and Canonization and their pastoral requirements, and after receiving the approval of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, this Congregation for the Causes of Saints informs [the faithful] of the following new measures: 1. While it should be understood that the Holy Father will preside at a Canonization, which attributes the devotion of the whole Church to the Blessed, a Beatification, nonetheless a Pontifical act, will be celebrated by a representative of the Holy Father who…